In 1974, as a 12-year-old growing up in Minneapolis, Polly Letofsky was inspired by a Minnesota man who had become the first man to walk around the world. Twenty-five years later, she left her home in Colorado, to begin her life-long dream to walk around the world. Letofsky s five-year adventure would take her across four continents, 22 countries and more than 14,000 miles.
Touched by several family members and friends who had breast cancer, she also shared her passion for increasing awareness of the disease and raised more than $250,000 for various breast cancer programs throughout the world. Letofsky s long-awaited book, 3MPH: The Adventures of One Woman s Walk Around the World, is filled with humor, drama, adventure, and most of all, inspiration. With razor-sharp observation, she writes with complete honesty, taking her readers through the pain and glory of being a woman in search of all that the world had to offer. Throughout her global travels, strangers welcomed Letofsky into their homes, shared meals and embraced her and her mission. However, two years into her journey and while in her first Muslim country -- 9/11 slammed us all into a crossroads in world history. Overnight she found herself in the middle of a vastly changing world, suddenly no longer just a woman walking for women, but clearly an American woman, with a Jewish name, walking through Muslim countries, talking about breasts.
Readers of Letofskys book praise her rich, anecdotal, storytelling style, full of comedic dialogue. With wit, a little bite, and a self effacing style, she takes her readers through the pain and glory of being a woman in search of all that the world had to offer. From the outpouring of generosity and support for Letofsky, to the earthquakes, riots and the unwanted advances by men that she endured in some countries, readers experience the world through her unprecedented journey.
3mph is the winner of Best Travel Memoir at the 2011 IPPY Book Awards, winner of 2011 Best Memoir at the CIPA Book Awards, winner of the 2011 Writer's Digest Best Memoir at their Annual Book Awards, and the USA Best Book Awards gave 3mph Finalist honors in both memoir and travel. Newcastle Productions has also produced a documentary, Polly's GlobalWalk, showing on PBS around the country (and available on Amazon.)
Touched by several family members and friends who had breast cancer, she also shared her passion for increasing awareness of the disease and raised more than $250,000 for various breast cancer programs throughout the world. Letofsky s long-awaited book, 3MPH: The Adventures of One Woman s Walk Around the World, is filled with humor, drama, adventure, and most of all, inspiration. With razor-sharp observation, she writes with complete honesty, taking her readers through the pain and glory of being a woman in search of all that the world had to offer. Throughout her global travels, strangers welcomed Letofsky into their homes, shared meals and embraced her and her mission. However, two years into her journey and while in her first Muslim country -- 9/11 slammed us all into a crossroads in world history. Overnight she found herself in the middle of a vastly changing world, suddenly no longer just a woman walking for women, but clearly an American woman, with a Jewish name, walking through Muslim countries, talking about breasts.
Readers of Letofskys book praise her rich, anecdotal, storytelling style, full of comedic dialogue. With wit, a little bite, and a self effacing style, she takes her readers through the pain and glory of being a woman in search of all that the world had to offer. From the outpouring of generosity and support for Letofsky, to the earthquakes, riots and the unwanted advances by men that she endured in some countries, readers experience the world through her unprecedented journey.
3mph is the winner of Best Travel Memoir at the 2011 IPPY Book Awards, winner of 2011 Best Memoir at the CIPA Book Awards, winner of the 2011 Writer's Digest Best Memoir at their Annual Book Awards, and the USA Best Book Awards gave 3mph Finalist honors in both memoir and travel. Newcastle Productions has also produced a documentary, Polly's GlobalWalk, showing on PBS around the country (and available on Amazon.)
